Hear ye, hear ye Fermentines📯
The monastery has been quite busy over the past weeks, and today we bring you the update that brings Ale Abbey to its 1.1, Requiem for a Brew! A hearty update that we have been painstakingly brewing based on your feedback, it brings a multitude of UI improvements, new world flavor, spooky surprises, and some much-needed “smoothing” to make things more palatable under the hood.
UI Changes
Cleaner, Sharper, Friendlier
- Updated tooltip for fermenters and boilers when a valid coordinate exists, but the high spot is occupied
- Added ESC-to-close on bartering panels
- Added a Courtyard delivery queue icon and panel to track incoming and outgoing goods
- Improved info when choosing ales for bandits (style and traits now shown)
- Added contextual tooltips to the Title scene
- Added “Mute when minimized” toggle in Main Menu
- Added selling details panel in Ale Markets
- New drag icon when hovering over the Recipes UI minimap
- New icon in the Brewing UI and Archives to mark award-winning ales
- Added profit sorting
- Added filters to show only ales requiring lagering or aging
- Brewing UI now keeps your filtering and sorting when closed
- Tooltips no longer vanish when hovering over a selected Fermentine
- Added “Continue” button on Title scene
- Added controls to increase/decrease ale prices in the Markets UI
- Game time now pauses when confirmation windows appear (serial pausing aficionados, we have finally been blessed!)
Achievements
If you ever liked “cheesing” it, you can stop holding your breath now…
- The “Cold Cellar” achievement can now be unlocked by moving an existing cellar to the lower floors (it’s a feature, not a bug)
World
New Events, New Art, Weather Effects!
- A brand-new ghostly World Event now haunts the Abbey…
- Fixed furniture-movement issues in the Abbot’s room
- Fixed laymen’s exception for newly finished rooms being moved
- Added new SFXs
- Added snow and rain VFX
- Increased bonuses for Frescos
- Added new Frescos for:
- Cellar
- Meditation Room
- Refectory
Backend
Smoother Than a Well-Rested Lager
- Fixed trait-count calculation for the More Than Three Traits judge’s dislike (your competition results should now be more logical!)
A Small Favor from the Fermentine Order… 🍻❤️
If Ale Abbey managed to get you to find peace and quiet for a weekend or two… or months (we don’t judge), or maybe made you grin thanks to your brewing success, consider leaving us a Steam review. It helps enormously with visibility and brings more monks, nuns, and curious wanderers into the Abbey.
From everyone here at Hammer & Ravens and Shiro,
Brew and be merry!